A feature which should help inspire thoughts of longer days and warmer weather. In 1994 BBC Radio Ulster's long running series "Places Apart" took a look at holiday destinations.

"Queen of the North's watering holes" is how one poster once described Newcastle, Co Down and it's still a popular place to visit in the summer time. In "Holiday Places Apart: Newcastle", Sean Rafferty returns to his home town to uncover its beginnings as a seaside resort - from the days of jaunting cars and bathing changing huts through the days of the railway and open-air entertainment at the bandstand and onto amusement arcades. Sean himself remembers being served a 'poke' or 'slider' by poet Seamus Heaney, when Heaney had a summer job in the Savoy Cafe, next to Sean's mother's chemist shop.

Memories of summer seaside magic are conjured up in "Holiday Places Apart: Newcastle", which was broadcast in July 1994 on BBC Radio Ulster.